@phdthesis{b7102f74-5785-4645-b85f-5bc5f57c7641,
abstract = {This thesis utilises qualitative methods to examine what drives /<br/><br>
impedes corporate action on climate change in the Swedish<br/><br>
electricity industry. Reasoning from new institutional theory, this<br/><br>
thesis examines the role of institutional logics as a determinant of<br/><br>
corporate actions. Institutional logics are shared cognitively<br/><br>
institutionalised structures that are thought to limit individuals’<br/><br>
capacity for free and autonomous action. Theoretically the thesis<br/><br>
examines the concept of agency vis-à-vis the ability of organisational<br/><br>
actors to perform institutional work on institutional logics.<br/><br>
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The thesis shows that public policy is the most important driver of<br/><br>
corporate action on climate change from a company perspective,<br/><br>
despite the fact that Swedish electricity companies operate in a<br/><br>
liberalised market context. It also shows that corporate action on<br/><br>
climate change is part of a broader institutional change project that<br/><br>
seeks to bring about a transition to more sustainable means of<br/><br>
electricity production. The change project is part of a programme of<br/><br>
ecological modernisation, which is described here as a hybrid logic<br/><br>
in that it combines traditional institutional orders such as<br/><br>
government, the private sector and science and technology as a<br/><br>
means to mitigate transboundary environmental problems. The thesis<br/><br>
concludes that a range of organisational actors collectively<br/><br>
participate in the ongoing modification and transformation of the<br/><br>
hybrid ecological modernisation logic via a process of<br/><br>
communicative interaction. The thesis analyses these findings in<br/><br>
terms of their implications for Swedish research policy.},
author = {Sarasini, Steven},
language = {eng},
school = {Lund University},
title = {The institutionalisation of corporate action on climate change in the Swedish electricity industry},
year = {2011},
}